.TH "axohelp" "1.4" "5 Mar 2021" ""
.SH NAME
axohelp - helper program for use of LaTeX package axodraw2 with
pdflatex. 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B axohelp [options] [filename]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Axohelp is a program used with the axodraw2, which is a LaTeX package
for drawing Feynman graphs (and some other simple graphics) in LaTeX
documents.

When the axodraw2 package is used with pdflatex (or lualatex or
xelatex) it creates a file with extension .ax1.  This contains
specifications of the graphics elements.  Axohelp converts this to a
file with extension ax2 that contains the necessary pdf code.
The .ax2 file is read by pdflatex (etc) on its next run, and the
contents of the .ax2 file are used in the final .pdf output file to
draw the desired graphics.

The files processed are specified as follows: When the filename on the
command line is of the form file.ax1, then the input file is file.ax1
and the output file is file.ax2. If the filename on the command line
does not have extension .ax1, then this extension is appended.


.SH OPTIONS
Options can be introduced by single or double hyphen characters. The
possible options are:

.TP
.B -h, --help
Gives usage information

.TP
.B -v, --version
Gives version information

.TP
.B -V
NOT CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED: Give information on each function used.

.SH AUTHOR
Current version, by John Collins (username jcc8 at node psu.edu) and
Jos Vermaseren (username t68 at nikhef dot nl).

The released version can be obtained from CTAN:
<http://www.ctan.org/pkg/axodraw2/>, and an author's website
<https://www.nikhef.nl/~form/maindir/others/axodraw2/axodraw2.html>.
